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The Yoido Full Gospel Church has 800,000 members throughout South Korea and other countries. It claims to be the biggest church in the world. On Sundays, there are services every two hours -- each attended by about 12,000 -- in the church's vast halls in downtown Seoul.

Jay Shafer, of the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company, talks about the movement to build small homes. Shafer builds -- and lives in -- houses as small as 70 square feet. He's encouraging others to live that way.

Rick Moody has built a life in words, in writing them for his books like The Ice Storm, and in reading them. He believes there is unlimited joy in opening a new book and delving into its story.

In New Orleans' exuberant French Quarter, even a discarded refrigerator can be a canvas for artistic or political expression. Residents have begun dressing up their cast-off coolers with feathers, bow ribbons, and enough cold commentary to give a political leader the chills.

Last year, Donald Cooper, a homeless diabetic, began medical treatment and support with an ambitious new program in Boston. He's suffered setbacks, but his medical team is getting him back on track.

A day before Iraq's parliamentary election, President Bush will stress why he thinks the United States must stay in Iraq, in the last of a series of speeches intended to persuade more Americans to support his strategy.

Commentator Michael O'Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, says the military has a legitimate role when a massive disaster hits American soil. He argues for another exemption to the 130-year-old law that prevents U.S. troops from being used to enforce domestic law.

During the Civil War, when soldiers were shooting primitive muskets, the United States Navy was building its very first submarine: the USS Alligator. It disappeared in 1863, but historians now think they know where it is. Nell Boyce reports from the waters off North Carolina.

Benjamin Kunkel talks about his debut novel, a tale of twenty-something angst called Indecision. Kunkel is also a co-founder of the literary magazine n+1.

The south Los Angeles community is on its way to surpassing New Orleans as the most violent per-capita city in America. City leaders, residents, police and the clergy are trying to quell the violence.